out of control teens shut down library

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/nyregion/02library.html?em&ex=1167886800&en=139255a494f12fba&ei=5087%0A

I think this is why most library systems don't do more for teens...because they are afraid of what they would do if they all started coming in. My branch has about six 12 year olds that drive the staff crazy...I can only imagine what 50 would be like. I guess I would try and recruit a partner organization to make the meeting room a space teens want to be in and have pride in. Getting the closing police station into a youth center also sounds good.

I dream of running a teen community center in a medium size city that would be part Y, part library, part community health center. With stuff teens really need, but also enjoy. Where they wouldn't just be babysat, but have opportunities to grow and become great citizens.

entertainment of horror

Over the holiday weekend, I was introduced to the fascinating, funny, and equally horrifying Metalocalypse. I tried sharing this with some co-workers at a blogging meeting, and may have scarred their sweet little brains (heck, I didn't want to see MurderFace bite it on the pavement either...I must have blocked out how violent it is). This show creates a world that is straight out of a heavy metal album cover. And it is raw, gross, and terrible in all those ways. But yet, I still am obsessing on it and think it rocks. Then I wonder what is wrong with me. And society.

The top secret military dude who wants to take the band down looks just like my deceased grandpa.